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In-depth essays and interviews with filmmakers.
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Film Noir Reader  As an adjunct to their other texts on film noir [please see the By the Same Authors links just below since 1996 Alain Silver and James Ursini have edited the Film Noir Reader series. Just completed is Film Noir Reader...
http://members.aol.com/alainsil/noir/

Descriptions of various sub-genres with synopses of example films to illustrate distinctions.
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Film Noir Films  American crime and detective films released in France following the war. It was a style of black and white American films that first evolved in the 1940s, became prominent in the post-war era, and lasted in a classic Golden Age...
http://www.filmsite.org/filmnoir.html

Backgrounds and buttons for film noir sites.
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kat black's film noir freebies  Sunday feature sophisticated black white: glorious technicolour: from the cutting room floor: This is a freebies site, so you can download whatever you like, but selling any of the material in graphics collections is BAD KARMA. Freely give what you...
http://lavender.fortunecity.com/kane/303/

Summaries, reviews and art work for noir films and books.
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Dark City: Film Noir and Fiction  Noir website features noir works in depth. Click on the Film Titles link (here or in the menu) and dive off The Deep End into the movie pages, where you'll find images, memorable lines, plot summaries and reviews. Want to...
http://www.eskimo.com/~noir/

Photos from a wide variety of titles.
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screwball comedy: table of contents  This site has a new home at: http www.moderntimes.com/palace/film_noir.html click on the link if you're not automatically redirected there....
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/noir.htm

A look at one of the most important, and often overlooked, aspects of film noir: the form of the narrative.
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Narrative Innovations in Film Noir  Noir is often innovated in narrative techniques 147Double Indemnity” is marked by two temporal movements: of 147real time and 147remembered time. The film opens with Walter Neff (MacMurray) arriving at his office in the middle of the night and delivering...
http://www.moderntimes.com/palace/inv_noir.htm

Author Eddie Muller introduces his books on film noir and the people who made the genre great.
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NOIR CITY 4 Noir City Film Noir Festival  ...
http://www.noircity.com/

The Hardboiled World of Classic Film Noir includes articles, recommendations and more than 600 films.
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Classic Noir Online: The Hardboiled World of Classic Film Noir.  Malaysian night is suddenly broken by gunshots! Bette Davis, in one of her greatest performances. The story by Somerset Maugham was nominated for seven Oscars including best picture, director, and actress Save 10% on the The Letter DVD Get the...
http://www.classicnoir.com

An essay by William Preston Robertson on bowling scenes in film noir. Definitely a new twist on things.
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The Incredible World of Bowling Noir: An Essay by William Preston Robertson  A backlit puff of smoke curls up from his silhouette--a not-too-subtle brimstonic portent of the damnation that is his fate, beckoning to him like a dark-eyed siren lounging in a cheap cocktail dress on the rocky shore of lust. The...
http://members.aol.com/bobbuttman/bowlingnoir/bowlingnoir.htm

Eric Enders' list of top 25 Noir films.
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Top 25 Films Noir  Something that they just can’t face Some folks spend their whole lives tryin’ to keep it They carry it with `em every step that they take Till some day they just cut it loose— cut it loose or let it...
http://www.ericenders.com/noir25.htm

Reviews of classic Noir and Neo-noir films.
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Film Noir  On video or should be soon Bob Le Flambeur 2002 Charlotte Sometimes 2003 Criss Cross Deep End, The 2001 Double Indemnity Femme Fatale 2002 Good Thief, The 2003 Nick Nolte Identity 2003 John Cusack, Amanda Peet Insomnia 2002 Al Pacino...
http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/id604.htm

A look at three of the studio's films noirs: Desire Me, Keeper of the Flame and A Woman's Face.
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MGM Film Noir  Columbia gave us some of the best. Here, the Mave spotlights three movies from a studio known more for its colorful musicals than film noir: MGM. Even though all three films have the lush production values so characteristic of that...
http://www.themave.com/Noir/Noir.html

History of the genre, with links and film recommendations. Also looks at related Noir-like Sci-fi, Western and War films.
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WEBORGERS Hard-Boiled Mysteries Films  Boiled style and settings are present in films mainly since the early 30's. Film Noir was coined after WW2, in France, to name these black and white films dealing with gangsters, PIs and central characters struggling with a corrupted world;...
http://www.geocities.com/Athens/6384/filmnoir.html

Brad Lang picks the best film noir sites.
http://classicfilm.about.com/cs/filmnoirmystery/

TV-Now's full schedule of all the Film Noir playing on television this month.
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Film Noir Current Month TV Schedule  A mentally unbalanced heiress implicates an innocent ambulance driver in a plot to do away with her stepmother. 105 minutes- USA, 1952 CC BW Wed Oct 5 02:30A on Turner Classic Movies The Asphalt Jungle Directed by John Huston. Starring...
http://www.tv-now.com/stars/filmnoir.htm

Noir resources including a club that trades, swaps, buys and sells video and 16mm films.
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Film Noir DVDs TAPES More  Forum for insomniacs and other demented film fans! Site Directory Mission Statement DVD Video Haves DVD Video Wants New Arrivals Order Now The Big Chat Interviews SF Jewish Film Festival: This Gun for Hire Wed Oct. 26 3 More Thursday...
http://www.noirfilm.com/

Reviews of vintage and neo-noir films.
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The Noir Files  FcourtLawrence Russell FILM NOIR The Letter (1940) Double Indemnity (1944) Detour (1945) The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946) Out of the Past (1947) The Lady From Shanghai (1948) Gun Crazy (1949) Sunset Boulevard (1950) Niagara (1953) related quasi Film Noir:...
http://www.culturecourt.com/F/Noir/NoirFiles.htm

Overview of the development of film noir and literary noir in postwar America.
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Film Noir  Main crime film sections currently available: Gangster sagas Detective films Film noir Neo-noirCop action films Parodies TV series Film reviews The Development of Post-war Literary and Cinematic Noir The years immediately following the end of World War Two marked the...
http://www.crimeculture.com/Contents/Film%20Noir.html

Roger Westcombe discusses the dark film, post-war malaise and Noir's spiderweb of fate.
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What is this thing called film noir  What is this thing called film noir, anyway? The 145;dark film’ The word 145;noir’ is literally French for 145;black’ giving us the concept of 145;dark film’ French film critics coined the term soon after the end of WWII. In the...
http://www.bighousefilm.com/noir_intro.htm

Internet Movie Database users vote for the top fifty all-time Film Noir movies.
http://www.imdb.com/Charts/Votes/film-noir/